Angioplasty Essay

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Identify and elaborate on at least five major points made in the video presentation. -Angioplasty works to help clear the blockages in the blood vessels around the heart, which causes chest pain. With angioplasty an inflatable balloon is inserted into the artery to remove the blockage and a little metal tube called a stent is left behind to keep the artery open. -More than a million angioplasties are performed in America every year. Studies found that angioplasty will not help patients live any longer, which brings up the debate if there are too many angioplasty procedures are being done to treat heart disease. -If you are having a heart attack angioplasty and stents can save your life, but moderate chest pain stents will not make it go away. Yet a non-invasive alternative can help with the chest pain such as taking medication, changing diets, and get more exercise. -Dr. Boden considers that medical therapy could possibly be the equal of angioplasty and stenting. Invasive procedures like angioplasty is being overused. Heart disease and coronary disease is a self-inflicted disease. With us eating the wrong food and no exercising. People would rather consider a quick fix like angioplasty. -Device makers for angioplasty has been offering perks to doctors go get them to use their products which is illegal. The concern that they have is “off label“ usage. Which is relating to a drug or treatment to treat a condition for which has not been approved by the food and drug administration. -The question is what sort of lifestyle do Americans think they are able to achieve. Many patients who started out on medicine eventually decided to get angioplasty. Because society has a higher value on technology people feel deprived of the latest and greatest benefits that medicine has to offer. Hence why people would rather do angioplasty instead of
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